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SMARTS 1.3m ANDICAM imaging

Queen's, University of Southampton, MPA, and Wiezmann have purchase time on the SMARTS 1.3m telescope at CTIO with the ANDICAM imager, initially from February - April 2013. We are allocated 45mins per night.

Website :

http://www.astro.yale.edu/smarts/13-m-telescope.htm

The instrument has a beam splitter, so we can do

BVRI optical imaging (6 arcmin field)

Simultaneous imaging in JHK (one filter at a time ; 1 armin field)

PESSTO Key Science Targets can be triggered on the 1.3m telescope. Janet Chen from Queen's is the scheduler - to trigger a PESSTO Key Science target, send Janet details (Janet Chen <tchen09@qub.ac.uk>). Approximate cadence we are targeting with SMARTS 1.3m, assuming targets are between 18-20 mag.

To trigger a target, simply tell Janet which one and note it on the marshall. It must be a PESSTO approved Key Science Target. She will schedule it for the following BVRI data, and if you have other requests, such as daily coverage for SNe close to explosion epoch, or very fast declining SNe then tell Janet your preference. We require XXhrs notice to trigger observations.

NIR imaging : many of our targets will be faint for 1.3m NIR imaging, if you don't specifiy what you want we will gather dithered J-band data during all the optical imaging. Otherwise please tells what you want and we will try.

Phase

Length

Cadence

Number of epochs

1-30d

30d

3d

10

30-70d

40d

6d

7

70-120d

50d

10d

5

Requests for other use of the time should be sent to (Stephen Smartt, Mark Sullivan, Avishay Gal-Yam and Wolfgang Hillebrandt).

Please also include the words "operated by the SMARTS Consortium" in addition to the specific telescope/instrument combination when describing your observations. When appropriate, a reference to SMARTS in the abstract of papers is appreciated.

Data access

http://www.pessto.org/pessto/private/external_data/

The data log named "data_log.txt", you could find the date when your targets have been observed.

The optical images are reduced, but in NIR are not reduced.For NIR calibrations, the combined dome flat in the folder "flatsir",

and the raw data of flat-fileds and dark frames are listed in the "calibsir.txt".

You could also find standard stars both in optical and NIR when you search the "standards.txt" list.